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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ancient monumental rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_(6979564688).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg/170px-Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg/255px-Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg/340px-Yad_Avshalom_Panorama_7_%286979564688%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3044" data-file-height="3838" /></a><figcaption>Tomb of Absalom (western facade), with the entrance to the Cave of Jehoshaphat (left) behind it</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Tomb of Absalom</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">יד אבשלום</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Yad Avshalom</i></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Absalom's Memorial'), also called <b>Absalom's Pillar</b>, is an ancient <a href="/wiki/Rock-cut_tombs_in_ancient_Israel" title="Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel">monumental rock-cut tomb</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Conical_roof" title="Conical roof">conical roof</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/Kidron_Valley" title="Kidron Valley">Kidron Valley</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, a few metres from the <a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Zechariah" title="Tomb of Zechariah">Tomb of Zechariah</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Benei_Hezir" title="Tomb of Benei Hezir">Tomb of Benei Hezir</a>. Although traditionally ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Absalom" title="Absalom">Absalom</a>, the rebellious son of <a href="/wiki/King_David" class="mw-redirect" title="King David">King David</a> of Israel (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1000 BC</span>), recent scholarship has dated it to the 1st century AD. </p><p>The tomb is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a <i><a href="/wiki/Nefesh" title="Nefesh">nefesh</a></i> (funeral monument) for the tomb in its lower part, but it was probably also meant as a <i>nefesh</i> for the adjacent burial cave system known as the <b>Cave</b> or <b>Tomb of Jehoshaphat</b>, with which it forms one entity, built at the same time and following a single plan.<sup id="cite_ref-Hachlili_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hachlili-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The freestanding monument contains a burial chamber with three burial sites. The chamber is carved out of the solid lower section of the monument, but can only be accessed from the upper section via a built entrance and a staircase. It has been compared to <a href="/wiki/Petra" title="Petra">Petra</a>, given the rock-cut nature of the bottom segment and the style of the <a href="/wiki/Finial" title="Finial">finial</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Fyfe1965_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fyfe1965-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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the Tomb of Absalom.</div></div></div></div> <p>Absalom's Pillar is approximately 20 metres (66 ft) in height. The monument proper stands on a square base and consists of two distinct parts. The lower section is a monolith, hewn out of the rocky slope of the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a>, while the upper part, rising higher than the original bedrock, is built of neatly cut <a href="/wiki/Ashlar" title="Ashlar">ashlars</a>. </p><p>The lower half is thus a solid, almost perfectly <a href="/wiki/Cube" title="Cube">cubical</a> monolithic block, about 6 m (20 ft) square by 6.4 m (21 ft) high, surrounded on three sides by passageways which separate it from the vertically cut rock of the Mount of Olives. It is decorated from the outside on each side by pairs of <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> half-columns, flanked in the corners by quarter-columns and pillars (a so-called <a href="/wiki/Distyle_in_antis" title="Distyle in antis">distyle in antis</a> arrangement). The four square facades are crowned by a <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a> <a href="/wiki/Frieze" title="Frieze">frieze</a> of <a href="/wiki/Triglyph" title="Triglyph">triglyphs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metope_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metope (architecture)">metopes</a> and an Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Cornice" title="Cornice">cornice</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg/220px-Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg/330px-Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg/440px-Inside_Absalom%27s_Pillar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1051" data-file-height="925" /></a><figcaption>Inside view of Absalom's Pillar, <a href="/wiki/Photoshop" class="mw-redirect" title="Photoshop">Photoshop</a>-<a href="/wiki/Morphing" title="Morphing">morphed</a> from the following two early 20th-century photos.</figcaption></figure> <p>The upper, ashlar-built part of the monument consists of three differently-shaped segments: a square base set on top of the Egyptian cornice of the lower part, followed by a round <a href="/wiki/Tholobate" title="Tholobate">drum</a> crowned by a rope-shaped decoration, which sustains a conical roof with concave sides (the easily recognisable "hat"), topped by a half-closed <a href="/wiki/Nymphaea" title="Nymphaea">lotus</a> flower. The upper part of the monument corresponds to the outline of a classical <a href="/wiki/Tholos_(architecture)" title="Tholos (architecture)">tholos</a> and is not unlike contemporary <a href="/wiki/Nabatean" class="mw-redirect" title="Nabatean">Nabatean</a> structures from <a href="/wiki/Petra" title="Petra">Petra</a>. </p><p>On the inside, the upper part of the monument is mostly hollow, with a small arched entrance on the south side set above the seam area (where the masonry part starts). Inside this entrance a short staircase leads down to a burial chamber carved out of the solid, lower section. The chamber is 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) square, with <a href="/wiki/Arcosolium" title="Arcosolium">arcosolium</a> graves on two sides and a small burial niche. The tomb was found empty when first researched by archaeologists.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Italian architect and engineer, <a href="/wiki/Ermete_Pierotti" title="Ermete Pierotti">Ermete Pierotti</a> (19th-century), rendered a superb description of the site in his seminal work, <i>Jerusalem Explored</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dating">Dating</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dating"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An analysis of the architectural styles used indicates that the monument's construction and its first stage of use happened during the 1st century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-Kloner-Zissu-141-143_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kloner-Zissu-141-143-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hachlili_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hachlili-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The irregular-shaped holes made into the monument are of later date, probably from the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Jerusalem#Early_Byzantine_period" title="History of Jerusalem">Byzantine period</a>. Even the original entrance has been widened in such rather defacing manner. See also under <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Byzantine_Inscriptions">"Byzantine inscriptions"</a> below. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traditional_attribution">Traditional attribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Traditional attribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Absalom's shrine has traditionally been identified as the monument of Absalom, rebellious son of King David, based on a verse in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Samuel">Book of Samuel</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-GTI_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GTI-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the Monument after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's Monument.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Samuel%2018:18&version=nrsv">2 Samuel 18:18</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>A "monument of Absalom" did exist in the days of <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a>, and was referred to in his <i><a href="/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews" title="Antiquities of the Jews">Antiquities</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 19th-century English translation by Havercamp states that the "monument of Absalom" stood at a distance of "two <a href="/wiki/Furlong" title="Furlong">furlongs</a>" from <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The attribution of this particular monument to Absalom was quite persistent, although the Book of Samuel reports that Absalom's body was covered over with stones in a pit in the <a href="/wiki/Wood_of_Ephraim" class="mw-redirect" title="Wood of Ephraim">Wood of Ephraim</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Samuel%2018:17&version=nrsv">2 Samuel 18:17</a>). </p><p>For centuries, it was the custom among passersby—Jews, Christians and <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Muslims</a>—to throw stones at the monument. Residents of Jerusalem would bring their unruly children to the site to teach them what became of a rebellious son.<sup id="cite_ref-GTI_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GTI-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_scholarship">Modern scholarship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Modern scholarship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The tomb's exterior design features a <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a> <a href="/wiki/Frieze" title="Frieze">frieze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic columns</a>, both being styles originating in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a> and introduced into Judah during the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a>, centuries after the death of Absalom. At the start of the 20th century, the monument was considered most likely to be that of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Jannaeus" title="Alexander Jannaeus">Alexander Jannaeus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty" title="Hasmonean dynasty">Hasmonean</a> king of Judea from 103 to 76 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, archaeologists have now dated the tomb to the 1st century AD.<sup id="cite_ref-Haaretz_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haaretz-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 2013 conference, Professor <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Barkay" title="Gabriel Barkay">Gabriel Barkay</a> suggested that it could be the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Herod_Agrippa" title="Herod Agrippa">Herod Agrippa</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">Herod the Great</a>, based in part on the similarity to Herod's newly discovered tomb at <a href="/wiki/Herodium" title="Herodium">Herodium</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cave_of_Jehoshaphat"><span class="anchor" id="Cave_of_Jehoshaphat"></span>Cave of Jehoshaphat</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cave of Jehoshaphat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nefesh_to_the_Tomb_of_Jehoshaphat"><i>Nefesh</i> to the Tomb of Jehoshaphat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Nefesh to the Tomb of Jehoshaphat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Archeologically, the so-called "Tomb of Absalom" is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a <i><a href="/wiki/Nefesh" title="Nefesh">nefesh</a></i> (funeral monument) for the tomb in its lower part, but it was probably also meant as a <i>nefesh</i> for the adjacent burial cave system known as the "Cave" or "Tomb of Jehoshaphat", with which it forms one entity, built at the same time and following a single plan.<sup id="cite_ref-Hachlili_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hachlili-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the times of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a>, many wealthy citizens of Jerusalem would have monuments built adjacent to their family burial caves. These monuments were built according to the architectural fashions of the time, many times with a <a href="/wiki/Pyramid" title="Pyramid">pyramid</a> on top, or in this case, a cone. Jewish <a href="/wiki/Wise_old_man" title="Wise old man">sages</a> of that era opposed the building of such monuments by saying: "You do not make <i>nefashot</i> for the righteous; their words are their commiseration."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Byzantine_inscriptions">Byzantine inscriptions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Byzantine inscriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2003, a mid-4th-century inscription on one of the walls of the monument was discovered. It reads, "This is the tomb of Zachariah, the martyr, the holy priest, the father of John". This suggests that at the time, the monuments was considered to be the burial place of the Temple priest <a href="/wiki/Zechariah_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zechariah (priest)">Zechariah</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ZiasNEA_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZiasNEA-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Haaretz_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haaretz-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who lived 400 or so years earlier than the inscription date. </p><p>A second inscription of the same age discovered in 2003 says the monument is "the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Simeon_(Gospel_of_Luke)" title="Simeon (Gospel of Luke)">Simeon</a> who was a very just man and a very devoted el(der) and (who was) waiting for the consolation of the people".<sup id="cite_ref-ZiasNEA_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZiasNEA-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The words describing Simeon are identical to those from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%202:25&version=nrsv">Luke 2:25</a> as they appear in the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus" title="Codex Sinaiticus">Codex Sinaiticus</a>, a 4th-century <a href="/wiki/Biblical_manuscript" title="Biblical manuscript">manuscript of the Christian Bible</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ZiasTFBA_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZiasTFBA-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The two inscriptions, discovered and deciphered by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Zias" title="Joe Zias">Joe Zias</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Puech" title="Émile Puech">Émile Puech</a>, support the concept known from <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> period sources such as <a href="/wiki/De_situ_terrae_sanctae" title="De situ terrae sanctae">Theodosius</a> (c. 530) that a tradition existed at the time, wrongly identifying the 1st-century monument as the tomb of <a href="/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" title="James, brother of Jesus">James, the brother of Jesus</a>; Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist; and Simeon, the old priest from the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ZiasNEA_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZiasNEA-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These two inscriptions are part of a secondary use of the monument during the Byzantine period, when <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a> gave new interpretations to Jewish <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a> tombs from the Kidron Valley, associating them with characters and events from the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha">Apocrypha</a>, and Christian traditions. The association of the so-called Tomb of Absalom with Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, has led to confusion with the nearby so-called <a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Zechariah" title="Tomb of Zechariah">Tomb of Zechariah</a>, associated by local folklore with a much earlier figure, the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple</a> priest <a href="/wiki/Zechariah_ben_Jehoiada" title="Zechariah ben Jehoiada">Zechariah ben Jehoiada</a>; however, that structure is not a tomb and might also be a <a href="/wiki/Nefesh" title="Nefesh">monumental marker (nefesh)</a> for the nearby burial cave of the <a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Benei_Hezir" title="Tomb of Benei Hezir">priestly family of Hezir</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legends">Legends</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a local legend, <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> fired a <a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">mortar</a> at the tomb, and removed the shape of a hand that topped the conical roof.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Napoleon never reached Jerusalem during <a href="/wiki/French_Invasion_of_Egypt_(1798)" class="mw-redirect" title="French Invasion of Egypt (1798)">his campaign</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Land" title="Holy Land">Holy Land</a>. Actually, the top of the monument is not at all broken, but is rather carved to resemble a lotus flower.<sup id="cite_ref-Kloner-Zissu-141-143_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kloner-Zissu-141-143-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Muslims gave the tomb the Arabic name <i>Tantur Fir'aun</i>, "<a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a>'s Hat", due to the shape of its dome.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others explain the sense as meaning "Pharaoh's peak."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aboud" title="Aboud">Mokata 'Abud</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Umm_al_Amad,_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Umm al Amad, Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Umm al Amad, Jerusalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khirbet_Kurkush" title="Khirbet Kurkush">Khirbet Kurkush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_ed_Darb" title="Deir ed Darb">Deir ed-Derb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason%27s_Tomb" title="Jason's Tomb">Jason's Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Benei_Hezir" title="Tomb of Benei Hezir">Tomb of Benei Hezir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tombs_of_the_Kings_(Jerusalem)" title="Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem)">Tomb of the Kings</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Absalom&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar,_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="1839 image from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia"><img alt="1839 image from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif/lossy-page1-120px-David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif/lossy-page1-180px-David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif/lossy-page1-240px-David_Roberts_-_Absalom%27s_Pillar%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat_-_1927.110_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4905" data-file-height="3881" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1839 image from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Holy_Land,_Syria,_Idumea,_Arabia,_Egypt,_and_Nubia" title="The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia">The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia</a></i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Original couple of pictures"><img alt="Original couple of pictures" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg/120px-InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg/180px-InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg/240px-InsideAbsalom%27sPillar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5507" data-file-height="3981" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Original couple of pictures</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Absalom%27s_Tomb,_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat,_Mount_of_Olives,_Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stereo card by T.W. Ingersoll"><img alt="Stereo card by T.W. Ingersoll" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg/120px-Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="61" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg/180px-Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg/240px-Absalom%27s_Tomb%2C_Valley_of_Jehoshaphat%2C_Mount_of_Olives%2C_Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="17076" data-file-height="8718" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Stereo_card" class="mw-redirect" title="Stereo card">Stereo card</a> by <a href="/wiki/T.W._Ingersoll" class="mw-redirect" title="T.W. 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